Jackdaws.
These birds frequent the flocks of rooks, and with them go out to feed, as if they were aware of the superior sagacity of the rook in finding out the most productive pasture, and had learned to avail themselves of it. Starlings sometimes do the same. Sometimes before the change of weather the daws make a great noise in the chimneys wherein they build, and the sound coming down the flue is distinctly heard in the chamber.
Jackdaws are unusually clamorous before rain.
Kites.
Kites flying unusually high are said to indicate fair weather.
Larks.
Larks, when they sing long and fly high, forebode fine weather.
As long as the lark is heard before Candlemas day (in Europe), that long will it be silent afterward on account of cold yet to come. (German.)
Loon.
Hunters say that the direction in which the loon flies in the morning will be the direction of the wind next day.